FED FOR SLAUGHTER

MEMORY VERSE: but thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of the slaughter, Jeremiah 12:3

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Num 8, Ps 44, Sng 6, Heb 6 

God wants you to prosper. It will be a disaster for the father to be rich and the son is poor. If the Lord owns the whole world according to Psalm 24:1 and Haggai 2:8 says silver and gold belong to Him ( gold to stand for economy), why then should His children be poor? If for one reason or the other you are struggling, it may be because you need Jesus. If you already have Jesus, and you are living a life of holiness and still struggling, I want to tell you that that struggle is temporary. It is temporary because Psalms 30:5 says weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning so friends’ joy is coming. Not only that the Lord says in Isaiah 3:10, say ye to the righteous, that it shall be with him. So regardless of what struggles you are going through all will be well, amen.

Our physical prosperity is hinged on our spiritual prosperity or our soul. The Lord loves you too much to prosper you above your spiritual prosperity. Solomon was a prime example of a man who prospered above his soul, what did he do with the prosperity? He just collected woman and concubines. This man had 700 wives and 300 concubines. God pegs our physical prosperity on our spiritual prosperity because He does not want His gifts to take us to hell. 3 John 2 says I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospereth. If you are really serious about prospering, one of the things you need to do is read your bible more. Not only that you need to pay attention to living a life of holiness. Joshua 1:8 says this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

When you see a fellow prospering above his soul or prospering whilst living in disobedience to the law of God you need to watch out. Back in Africa we use traps to catch birds. Since chickens love corns, we would strategically arrange corns to lead to a small hut. The chickens start picking the corns from where they have been strategically positioned and before they know it they are in the small hut where it is too late to run. The reason why we feed this chicken with corn is because we want to catch them, kill and cook them. We feed them not because we like them but because we want to slaughter them. This is the exact thing the devil does. He prospers people whilst living in disobedience to God’s word or prospers them above their soul so he can destroy them later; he feeds them for slaughter. He uses these things to lure them to himself so he can destroy them. 

PRAYER POINT: Father, please let me never have what you have not giving to me.